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Monday, November 19, 2012

It's Electra's turn to make us think over on OPUS GLUEI. She wants to see in 3-D. Make something with more that one layer. That's what she said.So, I made a fabric basket.

And I filled it with goodies for someone very special.

I used this tutorial by Ayumi over at Pink Penguin. She writes tutorials that are very easy to understand. And the things she makes are gorgeous.Your turn. Make something 3-D and share with us over at OPUS GLUEI.

Sunday, November 4, 2012

It's my turn to host the challenge over at the Order of The OPUS GLUEI. We have a group of wonderfully talented ladies who rotate tormenting challenging any one who cares to look. I picked FIGURES for the topic. You can interpret it any way you choose. Numbers, people, sihlouettes, what ever pops into your head. I picked sihlouettes, and made bookmarks. Lately I have been obsessed with fabric and have been making sewn items. Well, I fell back to paper, scissors and glue this week. Felt good too.I usually have several books from which I draw my inspiration. Sometimes, not often, I will even follow the directions as written. Any way, I am also always losing my bookmarks. Don't ask, I don't know what happens to them. If I did, I wouldn't have had a project.Here are the bookmarks:

And here they are at work:

I used Photoshop Elements 7 to make the template page. I just grabbed shilouettes that I liked. And did a few things to them to make them only print in outline. They started out a solid black, and I didn't want to waste ink on the filled in shapes. Once printed, I grabbed some Basic Grey scrapbook paper, flipped it to the wrong side, and using a stylus, I traced the outlines of the shapes I wanted. Then I cut them out and glued them down to the plain green cardstock. Lastly, I traced the shapes with a black pen and then ran a black marker around the edges of the green rectangles for a bit of a finished look.Here are the shapes I made. Go ahead and download the template if you want. I'd love to see your bookmarks if you make any.